[138] Here as elsewhere improperly used as the name of a place.
[139] These four lines occur nearly verbatim towards the end of Peele's Old Wives' Tale, ll. 885-8.
[140] Pearls.
[141] Cliffs.
[142] Same as French rebattre, beat back.
[143] An allusion to the recent repulse of the Spanish Armada.
[144] Blasts.
[145] Giglot, a wanton woman.
[146] Thraso and Gnatho were well-known characters in the Eunuchus of Terence, and references to them are very common in the works of Elizabethan writers.
[147] Hurled, dashed to pieces.